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(RNN) - The National Hurricane Center issued hurricane warnings for the Carolinas on Tuesday as millions braced for the strongest storm to hit the region in decades. After weakening earlier in the day, Hurricane Florence regained its punch as evening approached. "Further strengthening is forecast tonight and Wednesday," the NHC said Tuesday.

​​In addition to Hurricane Florence off the eastern coast of the continental U.S., Tropical Storm Isaac in the Caribbean and Tropical Storm
Olivia
which passed by Hawaii Thursday, Delta's meteorology and operations teams in the Operations and Customer Center has added another storm to its radar-Typhoon Mangkhut.

Last update: 5:10 p.m. ET on Friday, Sept. 14. Airlines had waived change fees for travelers scheduled to fly to airports in the expected path of Hurricane Florence. Scroll down for the latest airline change-fee waivers that were in place as of 5:10 p.m. ET on Friday, Sept. 14.

CALABARZON MAP. (Map courtesy of DILG-4A) CALAMBA CITY, Laguna -- More than 6,000 people living along the Laguna de Bay shoreline towns of Rizal and Laguna, and island villages of Cavite, Batangas and Quezon were moved to safer grounds during a preemptive evacuation Friday night due to Typhoon Ompong.

TRIP TO MANILA. Cagayan officials visit Malacañang on Friday, September 14, a day before a strong typhoon is set to hit their province. Sourced Photo. A day before Typhoon Ompong (Mangkhut) was set to make landfall in their province, Cagayan's vice governor, some mayors, vice mayors, and provincial....

With memories of October 2015 still painfully fresh in their minds, residents and business owners along Gills Creek kept wary but cautiously optimistic eyes on the Florence forecast as the weekend neared. “I feel OK. People are like ‘Oh, my gosh!’ and I’m like, ‘Well, we’ve been through it one....

Inside, their kitchen island bears the scars of 2015. It’s one of the few visible reminders they have left of the flood. It took almost 2.5 years thanks to insurance and loan processes, but the house has been completely remodeled since the flood. “We’ve lost the most personal things already,” Karen said.

HONOLULU (AP) — Heavy rains prompted a warning to 10,000 Honolulu residents that they might need to evacuate their homes as water levels in a dam rose to dangerously high levels, but officials said the century-old earthen reservoir wasn't in immediate danger of collapsing.

TRIP TO MANILA. Cagayan officials visit Malacañang on Friday, September 14, a day before a strong typhoon is set to hit their province. Sourced Photo. A day before Typhoon Ompong (Mangkhut) was set to make landfall in their province, Cagayan's vice governor, some mayors, vice mayors, and provincial....

HONOLULU -- Heavy rains prompted a warning to 10,000 Honolulu residents that they might need to evacuate their homes as water levels in a dam rose to dangerously high levels, but officials said the century-old earthen reservoir wasn't in immediate danger of collapsing.

Water is seen rushing through a spillway in a neighborhood below the Nuuanu Dam in Honolulu on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. Honolulu officials say they may need to evacuate 10,000 people from a residential neighborhood if water in the reservoir continues to rise after heavy rains from a tropical storm.

HONOLULU — Heavy rains prompted a warning to 10,000 Honolulu residents that they might need to evacuate their homes as water levels in a dam rose to dangerously high levels, but officials said the century-old earthen reservoir wasn't in immediate danger of collapsing.

(RNN) - The eye of Hurricane Florence directly struck Wrightsville Beach, NC, on Friday, with the storm's winds at a sustained 90 mph. The Category 1 storm officially hit the East Coast around 7:40 a.m. ET, although its effects had already been felt for hours.

(RNN) - The eye of Hurricane Florence directly struck Wrightsville Beach, NC, on Friday, with the storm's winds at a sustained 90 mph. The Category 1 storm officially hit the East Coast around 7:40 a.m. ET, although its effects had already been felt for hours.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper urged people to take the storm seriously. "There is going to be a lot of rain. We are on the bad side of this storm. Our meteorologists are saying that the rainfall amounts will be devastating in certain areas," he said Thursday.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper urged people to take the storm seriously. "There is going to be a lot of rain. We are on the bad side of this storm. Our meteorologists are saying that the rainfall amounts will be devastating in certain areas," he said Thursday.

(RNN) - Hurricane Florence is about to make landfall Friday, with its eyewall already onshore the East Coast and its impact being felt. The impact is expected to be widespread, with destructive winds, life-threatening storm surge, dangerous surf, torrential rainfall, flooding and the potential for tornadoes.

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